RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-08 Thread James Carman
Isn't there some sort of ExpressionEvaluator service in HiveMind now? Is that where you'd plug in another expression language? -Original Message- From: Ben Eng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:33 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussio

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-08 Thread Ben Eng
Howard, I was only offering up an idea in response to your comment about OGNL not providing an adequate solution for Tapestry 5. You seemed to be searching for an expression language that could translate into both server-side and client-side implementations. Ben On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:07:13A

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-08 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
Everything will be pluggable, just like in Tapestry 4. Why not create this for Tapesty 4 today? On 8/8/06, Ben Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howard, How about adopting XPath expressions as an alternative to OGNL? Apache Commons JXPath could provide a server-side implementation, while somethi

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-08 Thread Ben Eng
Howard, How about adopting XPath expressions as an alternative to OGNL? Apache Commons JXPath could provide a server-side implementation, while something like Google AJAXSLT can implement XPath (as a part of XSLT) in JavaScript on the client side. See http://goog-ajaxslt.sourceforge.net/ Ben On

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-07 Thread Nemanja Kostic
Sorry for adding further flame on this discussun (not my intention) but it's very sad to see all this discussions about Tapestry 5 and I need to say a few words. I was a big fan of Tap and was the only one in my company who stood up for it. We used it for a few big projects for major Swiss ba

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-03 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
As per my early blog post ( http://howardlewisship.com/blog/2006/03/from-fanciful-ideas-category.html ), I would like to see object editting be dirt simple in Tapestry 5, using built in components. I'll be discussing some of this with Chris Nelson this weekend. I would like to see Trails5 be an

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-03 Thread hv @ Fashion Content
> My goal is not to beat JSF, but to give Java developers a compelling > reason to stay on Java and not jump over to Ruby on Rails. That's a > tall order. I think that's a very strong motivation indeed. I'm glad you are thinking along those lines. Having played around with ASP.NET/C# recently I

RE: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-02 Thread Danny Angus
"Epstein, Ezra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2006 21:31:27: > Rather I was questioning how the decision about IoC adoption is > being made. At the time HiveMind got started the IoC container > space was pretty open and empty. I don't really think thats true at all, but Hivemind did have

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-02 Thread Danny Angus
"Howard Lewis Ship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2006 17:34:47: I tend to agree with most of what you said. > The central issue is backwards compatibility. As the upgrade from 2 to > 3 to 4 has shown, adding new features to Tapestry often breaks > existing code. This is a reaction to the r

Re: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Henri Dupre
On 8/1/06, Epstein, Ezra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think there's a mis-communication. I do not at all feel HiveMind is "just an ego trip." Far from it. Rather I was questioning how the decision about IoC adoption is being made. At the time HiveMind got started the IoC container space was

RE: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Epstein, Ezra
's the process of deciding? Is it worth exploring Spring enhancements? That was the point. Thanks, Ezra Epstein -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hv @ Fashion Content Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:27 AM To: users@tapestry.apache.org Subject: Re:

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:51 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Finally, let's take a sober look. Of all the production apps written in T4, how many do you REALLY BELIEVE would be ported to T5? I'd say 1 of a hundread, if that.

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Howard Lewis Ship
.x for the future. All roads lead to 5.x regards, Mark -Original Message- From: James Carman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/1/2006 9:06 AM To: 'Tapestry users' Subject: RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions Mark, you also have to consider a different type of user. For me, a

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Stang
lliant idea and abandons 5.x, all hell will break loose. But from his e-mails, the plan is to maintain and enhance 5.x for the future. All roads lead to 5.x regards, Mark -Original Message- From: James Carman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/1/2006 9:06 AM To: 'Tapestry user

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Adam Zimowski
olks aren't very impressed by tools and they don't think that tool support should be the reason that people choose a platform, but to some they are very important. -Original Message- From: Mark Stang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:25 AM To: Tapestry users; T

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread James Carman
t think that tool support should be the reason that people choose a platform, but to some they are very important. -Original Message- From: Mark Stang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:25 AM To: Tapestry users; Tapestry users Subject: RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions I d

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Stang
2006 7:51 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > Finally, let's take a sober look. Of all the production apps written > in T4, how many do you REALLY BELIEVE would be ported to T5? I'd say 1 > of a hundread, if that. On the other hand tapestry p

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread James Carman
different versions to maintain? -Original Message- From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:51 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > Finally, let's take a sober look. Of all the production apps written > in T4, how many do

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Danny Angus
> Finally, let's take a sober look. Of all the production apps written > in T4, how many do you REALLY BELIEVE would be ported to T5? I'd say 1 > of a hundread, if that. On the other hand tapestry provides us the the ability to re-use components. If we want to write new applications in Tapestry5

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread James Carman
"Finally, let's take a sober look" Isn't that a bit much to ask? I mean, who's sober on Tuesday?!?!?! :-) -Original Message- From: Adam Zimowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:35 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discuss

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Adam Zimowski
ade to T4 because of the potential headaches. Those people will still be left even further behind in the dust if there's no easy way for them to migrate their apps to T5. -Original Message- From: Adam Zimowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:40 AM To: T

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread James Carman
way for them to migrate their apps to T5. -Original Message- From: Adam Zimowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:40 AM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions There is couple such simple answer to all this: 1) Time will tell.. 2) The beauty of ope

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-08-01 Thread Adam Zimowski
eed IMHO). Anyway, this is your > baby, > > but if you want to gain some market share, then you should really listen > > to > > your users. Tapestry is starting to get a bad reputation for not > > supporting > > backward compatibility. Again, I think the direct

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread Alexandru Dragomir
Although i haven't really had the chance to use tapestry , i have been around it since tap3. Passing from t3 to t4 meant simplification and.. removing almost half of the t3 code. (tried it on my sample applications ) I can imagine that t5 would be again much simple than t4 , keeping the overall c

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread hv @ Fashion Content
Trashing HiveMind is sort of uninformed(not trying to sling mud). As previously pointed out you can't really do contributions in Spring. And that was one of the key T3 features it was supposed to replace. While I'm not terribly happy about the multitude of concepts involved in writing a non-triv

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread hv @ Fashion Content
06, Korbinian Bachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > what exactly do you mean with " to add components programatically" ? > > Regards, > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > Von: Josh Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. J

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread hv @ Fashion Content
> What do you think? I think; trying out a different approach in a sandbox to achieve improvements that seem impossible with the current structure is a good thing. making up your mind early that the future needs another painful revolution is a bad thing. But for all I know Howard is just tryi

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread hv @ Fashion Content
Personally I don't believe the proposed changes are a significant shift in the concept of how Tapestry works when compared to version 4. If that is the case the upgrade from 4 to 5 would be a technical change only. On the technical part I should think that a "classic" API could exist in Tapest

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread Josh Long
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 22:52 > An: Tapestry users > Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > Actually, the one feature I think id like to see at this > point (save for some small its-still

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread Peter Verhoye
> In my personal ideal world, Spring would have implemented the > namespacing, > abstraction, visibility and distributed configuration features he > needs, and > we could all reuse our Spring knowledge when we find we need to extend > Tap5. > At this point all I can hope for is that they implement

AW: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-31 Thread Korbinian Bachl
Hi, what exactly do you mean with " to add components programatically" ? Regards, > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Josh Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 22:52 > An: Tapestry users > Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions >

Re: AW: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tapestry users Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions I really don't see what all the fuss is about anymore. I've already stated that I'll be providing "some" form of T4 extension to upgrade to T5 when the time comes for it. I've been wanting some of the features in T5

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Josh Long
If theres a migration path to be had, then Im more than interested in tapestry 5. Actually, the one feature I think id like to see at this point (save for some small its-still-not-final issues with tapestry 4.1) is the ability to add components programatically. Everything else seems to be on par

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
Nice, Now it would be great if some of the people who complain about lack of stability actually helped in the migration path. I see some people who are pretty old Tapestry users. -- Ing. Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi DTQ Software Web Application Design and Programming http://www.dtqsoftware.com

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Echerer
Jesse Kuhnert wrote: > I really don't see what all the fuss is about anymore. I've already stated > that I'll be providing "some" form of T4 extension to upgrade to T5 when > the > time comes for it. > So..There we have it. :) > Great! After T3 betas/RCs, T4, I'm looking forward to migrate all ou

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Echerer
liigo wrote: > tapestry is a open source project. > before you requires others do or not do something, think what you have > done for it. > don't selfish It'll be selfish keeping my opinions for myself instead of sharing them. I doubt this discussion aimed to be one about what open source is or mea

AW: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Korbinian Bachl
quot;yes use it, because of a, b , c and d". regards korbinian > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Jesse Kuhnert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 16:31 > An: Tapestry users > Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > > I really don'

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
gliche Nachricht- > Von: liigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 15:38 > An: Tapestry users > Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > > tapestry is a open source project. > before you requires others do or not do something, think what > you have done

AW: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Korbinian Bachl
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: liigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juli 2006 15:38 > An: Tapestry users > Betreff: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions > > tapestry is a open source project. > before you requires others do or not do something, thi

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Cliff Zhao
"don't selfish" does not help anything. Sigh On 7/30/06, liigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tapestry is a open source project. before you requires others do or not do something, think what you have done for it. don't selfish 2006/7/30, Michael Echerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Norbert Sándor wr

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread liigo
tapestry is a open source project. before you requires others do or not do something, think what you have done for it. don't selfish 2006/7/30, Michael Echerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Norbert Sándor wrote: > - rethink the IOC container of t5 (use hivemind 2.0 or maybe Spring > instead of a custom "

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions -- Nice to see people paying attention

2006-07-30 Thread James Carman
: Tapestry development Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions -- Nice to see people paying attention Wow, I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in such talk from someone who is supposed to be the "chairman" of Hivemind. I'd almost say it sounds kind of immature. I support Howa

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Echerer
Norbert Sándor wrote: > - rethink the IOC container of t5 (use hivemind 2.0 or maybe Spring > instead of a custom "unsupported" solution) I also agree that we shouldn't have another IoC container. Spring is the de facto standard. Either take Spring and work around missing features. E.g. use naming

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-30 Thread Norbert Sándor
ers will think about whether t6 will have the same slogan? We all thank the hard work of the committers (especially Howard and Jesse), but the "Tapestry 5 Discussions" thread shows that there are some important things to note: - rethink the IOC container of t5 (use hivemind 2.0 or m

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-29 Thread Cliff Zhao
I completely agree with you since myself is also very techie. While, if I put the business hat on, things are viewed very differently. I personally have so much experience in this area. Being a Architect, I have to work with different people at different levels, developers, managers, project manag

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-29 Thread Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi
This is something that depends on the ability - and the willingness - to learn. There are some people who love staying in one job doing the same thing for years (yeah, they exist, Jesse!), and there are other who can't stand maintaining legacies just because some pointy haired boss is afraid of

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-29 Thread Rui Pacheco
Well, here is one nice blog entry about frameworks and backwards compatibility: http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/07/24/software_development_the_abstraction_dilemma.html On 7/29/06, Daniel Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm shamelessly too intoxicatd to reply, but Ezra encapsulated my thoug

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-29 Thread Daniel Honig
I'm shamelessly too intoxicatd to reply, but Ezra encapsulated my thoughts tonight. When he said, Hivemind is about ego, I was silently applauding. I don't understand whey the Tpy community cannot talk to Rod and Jurgen and have an integration. Let's talk .Net and JEE. For hte past year I have

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Spencer Crissman
Bingo. The issue isn't that having a Tap5 is important, for it is. There will always be a need to add new features and support new technologies as a framework expands. The issue I have is that every Tap release doesn't just add new abilities, it completely scraps the existing code. There are n

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
Yes, I could imagine doing it. We did the same thing when I worked at a large consulting company. I wanted to leave after the first 4 months(you can only learn so much with vanilla servlets + templating language enhancements), but stayed on to see through to the end on a project they started me o

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Steven Bell
That is one of the reasons. There are others. In my company we have many (possibly upwords of twenty) web projects going at any one time in various stages of development. The ability for a developer from one project to move to, and be productive in, another project as priority and resources dem

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Jason Dyer
Because, a company that has invested a year or more, developing an app is probably going to want to use it for a little while. Over the lifetime of an enterprise app, it will undoubtedly need modification (both bug fixes and added features.) When Tapestry 5 arrives, we can safely assume that T

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Epstein, Ezra
important considerations when making an adoption decision. Thanks, Ezra Epstein -Original Message- From: adasal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:49 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Seems I am wrong in my earlier post. Emm, but there is a lot o

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread adasal
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Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Kris Rasmussen
I actually prefer hivemind to Spring. Just my 2 cents. I find it easier to learn and better at what it does. Kris - Original Message From: Rui Pacheco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tapestry users Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:23:34 PM Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Som

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Rui Pacheco
Sometimes missing features is not a bad thing. If you want people to use your framework, you need to implement something they can use. Maybe losing some features and gaining some compatibility isn't such a bad thing. The rest could come later. This is not a race. On 7/28/06, D&J Gredler <[EMAIL P

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread D&J Gredler
I completely agree with you, and I really wish Spring were up to the task. However, Howard seems to have done his homework and come to the conclusion that it can't provide the features he needs for Tap5 (see http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/ioc/index.html). In my personal ideal world, Spring

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Steven Bell
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 4:30 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Picking through the name calling and attacks of the original message I find one legitimate point that hits very close to home. I work in a company that has (at a guess) 300+ Java developers (

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Payne, Matthew
+1 On replacing hivemind with spring. -Original Message- From: Rui Pacheco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 3:58 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Actually, I support the idea that leaving HiveMind is good. But not for a new IoC container. We

RE: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Payne, Matthew
How did the move from Tap3 to Tap4 require massive rework if you were still in evaluation? -Original Message- From: Steven Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 4:30 PM To: Tapestry users Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Picking through the name calling and attacks of

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Steven Bell
witching from HiveMind to TapIoCa (that's my little nickname for the > > > Tapestry IoC container), but if you don't want to be tied to HiveMind > or > > > don't want to be constrained by the release schedule, then I > understand > > > (although you'

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Alexandru Dragomir
nd to TapIoCa (that's my little nickname for the > > > Tapestry IoC container), but if you don't want to be tied to HiveMind > or > > > don't want to be constrained by the release schedule, then I > understand > > > (although you're a big part

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Rui Pacheco
y and we can easily > > accommodate any changes you could need IMHO). Anyway, this is your > baby, > > but if you want to gain some market share, then you should really listen > > to > > your users. Tapestry is starting to get a bad reputation for not > > supporting >

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Jesse Kuhnert
ed IMHO). Anyway, this is your baby, > but if you want to gain some market share, then you should really listen > to > your users. Tapestry is starting to get a bad reputation for not > supporting > backward compatibility. Again, I think the direction you're heading is a &

Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions

2006-07-28 Thread Francis Amanfo
on't have to consider your current users, but we don't have that luxury. -Original Message- From: Howard Lewis Ship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:09 PM To: Tapestry development Subject: Re: Tapestry 5 Discussions Right now its impossible because there&